Sentences with phrase «by mere humans»

It came out of real reactions by us mere humans to the demands of the true owners of our homes, our cats.

If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.

Churches — run by mere human beings and therefore fallible by default — take upon themselves, or attempt to, glory and obedience AND relationship due only to God Himself.

(2) THE HOLY SPIRIT First we ought to be baptized with water by a mere human being, then we will be baptized by Jesus with the Holy Spirit (Mk 1:8) «who proceeds from the Father» (Jn 15:26 ESV).

Somewhere in that life insurance policy must be something written so small and obscurely that it can never be found by a mere human that excludes my family from being paid no matter how I die.

Not exact matches

Leaders who are guided by faith, not fear, demonstrate through their actions, not mere words, what their core values are as a human being.

The original draft suggested that human beings were really nothing special, that we are mere guests and recent arrivals on an earth that could get along just fine without us (a theme repeated by many speakers).

This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

Why are works of human compassion nearly always left to be operated by a mere handful on a shoestring budget?

Religious beliefs and practices are observed and discussed, but treated as states of mind and social customs, mere human constructions unsupported by any transcendent reality.

These roles and relations are not fundamentally natural phenomena integral to human identity and social welfare but are mere accidents of biology overlaid with social conventions that can be replaced by functionally equivalent roles without loss.

The question of the nature of such visions is more difficult, for it involves criteria by which visions are to be distinguished from invented ones or those due to mere subjective human conditions.

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

By his mere great power on the minds of the now contestants, he could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest.

While the words were recorded by humans, it should be quite obvious that these aren't the musings of mere mortals.

Nature for him (be understands too late) is mere chaos, without form and void, until given meaning by human culture: «This used to be real estate / now it's only fields and trees.»

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

And in doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential quality that pervades all of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product of its abstracting as though it were reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by human sensory projection.

The chapter seems to give very obvious examples of predestination and tells us sternly to not question the matter by saying «Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God?»

It's mere conjecture that a reptile's descendents morphed into a human being and all species of mammalia by way of millions of «random positive mutations», because it has no basis in real world biology, no basis in fact, and therefore, no basis in science.

Your flawed book claims humanity is a mere few thousand years old while actual evidence from cave art to DNA show humans origins are much much older by a factor of 10.

Thus he concludes by holding that experience of God is an essential moment in all human experience: «man's awareness of God is no mere contingent extension of his awareness of himself, but is rather an indispensable element of that awareness....

«This responsibility for God's earth means that human beings, endowed with intelligence, must respect the laws of nature and the delicate equilibria existing between the creatures of this world... The laws found in the Bible dwell on relationships, not only among individuals but also with other living beings... by their mere existence they bless him and give him glory»... «the Lord rejoices in all his works» (Ps 104:31).

What is their deduction of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching of pedantic dictionary - adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one of those logical machines of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived as well as by a man of flesh and blood.

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

It may seem that to emphasize the pervasive operation of the Holy Spirit, as well as to stress the Spirit's focal action in the life of Jesus and its consequences, will in the end reduce men and women to mere automatons used by God with no respect for their freedom, their dignity, and their own responsible decisions, without any personal or social human contribution to the process.

The grace that is an unmerited gift, and transforms the mere human to a child of God by a process of sanctification, has no place in such a theology.

Not sin, for it is thought of as a universal human attribute; nor forgiveness, for it is conceived as a mere event in the world of external objects, on which man by his very theories and proofs exercises judgment, asserting that divine forgiveness can and must be thus and so.

If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?

God is God — and by God we mean no mere stream of tendency, no evolutionary influence, no compendious noun to describe the sum of human good will, but the one almighty and eternal Reality upon whom we depend both for our being and our continued existence, whether or not we are believers in Him, worshipers of Him, or doers of His Will.

Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

Converted men as a class are indistinguishable from natural men; some natural men even excel some converted men in their fruits; and no one ignorant of doctrinal theology could guess by mere every - day inspection of the «accidents» of the two groups of persons before him, that their substance differed as much as divine differs from human substance.

For example, most animal protectionists will argue that the mere death of the animal (unless to end suffering not induced by humans) is by definition cruel, as the animal will have lost its expectation of life.

Instead of «explaining» change, they all essentially deny change by affirming that it is unreal or mere appearance or «being» viewed from the finite human perspective.

(3) The Christian tradition with considerable consistency has affirmed that human actions are not controlled by fate and are not the mere outcome of natural necessity.

All I know is that GOD has infinite Wisdom and Knowledge and we, as mere humans, can never know everything about The Only True and Living GOD that created everything by His word.

Advice to my «non-creationist» human cohabitants... pick up a copy of a book written by an «once atheist» C.S. Lewis — «Mere Christianity»; it won't explain how the universe was born (that can't be right..

The universe is not a dark, inert set of atoms governed by physical laws that are mere projections of human effort but show that science itself indicates that the universe, indeed all things, are governed by a Unity - Law of Control and Direction, an intrinsic relationality, that God is «the sunshine of the soul» and His Son, Jesus, is our Saviour and Redeemer.

The gaping chasm between God and human beings — which human reason has perceived and before which it has trembled — has been bridged by this infant's merest yawn.

But for the church as a whole a theological evaluation of the promise and dangers of electronic technology is critical: as human society rapidly becomes an extended electronic network, it is imperative that the church's response be guided by clear theological insights and not mere opportunism.

Just FYI, the bible you consider the words of god, are nothing but words of mere mortals written over a long period of time then edited by other humans to fit their agenda of money, power, and to gain pagan followers.

By 2007, just three percent of U.S. hog farms, which produced a mere 0.12 percent of the swine brought to market, fed excess human food to their livestock.

Her story, like the stories of many others detailed by our editor Ian Dunt in recent months have put a human face to people who the British government have too often reduced to mere statistics.

Power operates through the normalizing gaze of the prison guard: it is not a mere external restraint on our conduct but has a productive role in shaping our inner world and identity to make us obedient and manageable.Under this picture, human freedom is threatened not so much by the crushing boot of 1984's Big Brother, but the passive intoxication of a Brave New World.

«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

A high - concept satire that fits perfectly with the rest of Payne's oeuvre, the film explores a world in which scientists have figured out the solution to overpopulation: by shrinking obliging humans down to mere inches in height.

Left on the craft to experience 23 years without human contact while his companions experience mere minutes on the surface of the planet, his reappearance is one of the film's most resonant moments — the more so for being so quiet and so delicately played by Gyasi.

If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others, saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the film is built on, and perhaps we would have seen even more fireworks in the romance department.